Ash's POV

After finishing off the Thornguard We, (Grim had surprisingly stayed rather than going off at the sign of danger.) headed off again. I started to wonder how we were going to find the safest Trod. Just as I opened my mouth to ask Grim he spoke.

"Yes, I know a way, so don't ask just follow."He replied in his signature bored tone. Bossy Cat, don't understand how humans put up with them, well aside from the fact that they are apparently 'Cute and Cuddly' according to Meghan but she also said she prefers dogs like Beau, she told me about her pet dog on the way to the Unseelie court, it seemed like she was trying to ignore how close we were. That was before what happened in the cave.

We continued to walk down the Icy path leaving footprints or in Grim's case pawprints in the snow. There wasn't any conversation in a while, but it was a comfortable silence not awkward.

"Where are we going Grim? Do you really even know the way?" I started asking as I got impatient.

Grim sighed and answered "Yes I do know where we are going, because this is where the Trod is. Now hush up so I can open the Trod." I shut up immediately, wanting just to get Meghan and get this over with. I watched as Grim opened the trod and stepped through, with me stepping in after. Alright Meghan, I thought to myself, where are you.

Meghan's POV

After cleaning the Packrats home I started to wonder where Ferrum was. Maybe he died I thought to myself. Now the place looked neat, I concentrated on that pulsing that I felt as soon as I arrived here. I reached out towards it and noticed it was glamour. I tried using the glamour on one of the many metal things in the room, a hanger, it probably wouldn't work this was summer glamour right? I mean, I can't have iron glamour right? Wrong.

The piece of hanger bended as I shaped it with the glamour. My mind went back to the night that I killed Machina, maybe his magic, glamour, power moulded to mine as I killed him, the witchwood arrow was an instrument that allowed his glamour to flow to me through it. That's why I had dreams about him sometimes. A part of him was inside of me, his power was inside me.

To think this, that he was or a part of him anyway was inside of me brought nausea to me and I thought I was going to be sick. But I wasn't. The days activities had made me tired, so I lay down on the couch and quickly fell asleep.

It felt like days had passed until I was jumped on causing me to wake up, screaming, until someone tried to calm me down. I quietened down. I looked around the room until I found the source of the commotion. It was a gremlin. The gremlin was by my feet, looking up at me.

"Master Meghan," It said, my eyes widened as it spoke. It called me Master, does that mean I get to order it around? I looked closely at the creature, looking into it's eyes.

"Why do you call me Master? What's your name? Will you help me?" The creature's eyes lit up as if pleased that I asked it to do something.

"I called Razor, Master, I call you Master because you are now and I would be pleased to help Master, helping Master is a good thing" Razor said, I was now thinking that most of these types of creatures must have a name of some kind to do with technological stuff or anything iron.

"Okay, Razor, do you think you could find Prince Ash of the Unseelie court please? Then could you take me to him?" He couldn't stop nodding once I'd asked him, he then zoomed about the living room (what I thought was the living room anyway) in joy.

"STOP!" I shouted as Razor headed straight for the enormous pile of scrap metal and things that I had made neat. He stopped instantly and turned to look at me.

"Do not, I repeat, Do Not run into that massive pile of metal, that is an order from me, here before you go give this to Ash, it might get him to come along a bit better, rather than have him put up a fight" He nodded once and replied "Yes Master," I quickly wrote a note and rolled it up, slipping the ring he gave me over the rolled up paper.

"Please go and find Ash. Now. Right this second. Also, don't loose the ring." I told him and he went with a smile on his face. Showing all the sharp pointy edges of them.

"Time to practice my Iron and Summer glamour." I took a deep breath and started.

Ash's POV

Once I entered the Iron Kingdom with Grim I was hit with the effects of the Iron, I felt slightly weaker and the stench from the iron was nearly unbearable, but I kept going for Meghan. I started walking when one of the weird iron creatures came out from behind a rock and took a hesitant step forward, afraid of us. I noticed that he had a piece of rolled up paper. He then was in front of us in a flash, giving me the piece of paper.

Around the piece of paper was the ring I gave Meghan. I then practically tore the paper unrolling it. I then read the note.

Dear Ash,

Do not worry about me I am fine. I am being taken care of. I put the ring on the note to help prove it was me sending the note. Please don't hurt Razor (The one who gave you the note) he thinks I'm his master. I told him to bring you to me. Trust him, please just let him lead you to me and then we can both get the sceptre back and get you out of this place. I have discovered that as well as Summer Glamour, I have Iron Glamour also.

So, let Razor guide you to me, don't hurt him or let anything hurt you.

All My Love,

Meghan

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After I read Meghan's note I nodded towards the little thing called Razor and said to him

"Take me to her,"

Meghan's POV

After about what felt like two hours of practising both summer and iron glamour, I was exhausted.

All the time I had been practising more little goblin creatures arrived and all of them called me Master. When the Packrats decided that they didn't want their tower of Metal to be destroyed, they had each taken turns guarding the tower from the Mischievous little gremlins. Once I had gotten up and walked to the kitchen I noticed the all of the gremlins eyes were on me. I just carried on and got something to eat and drink. I turned back to them again and they were still watching me, it was getting on my nerves but I tried to ignore it, so I went to sleep, waiting for Ash to come.

Ash's POV

Razor led me through the labyrinth of metal and then finally to a tunnel, which probably led to where we were going. Where Meghan was, where I needed to be, with her.

A flicker of movement then caught my eye, I turned towards it just as a metal bug come flying at me. I drew my sword as quick as I could and slashed at it. Then there were more. I turned to look at Razor, he was snarling at the little bugs with teeth sharp enough to cut through metal. We then started to fight.

In the end, we won and I only came out with a few minor burns.

We wandered through the tunnels and into a room filled with a hundred other little gremlins like Razor. They all seemed so focused on something I couldn't see on the couch, I took a step towards the couch and saw that they were all looking at Meghan. I moved around to the front of the couch where Meghan lay.

I softly brushed a stray piece of hair away from her face, she looked so peaceful sleeping, I didn't want to wake her up. My fingertips lightly traced along her face, my eyes following where my fingers went, her forehead, nose, eyelids, cheeks, chin and finally lips. I leaned forward, towards her lips and gently brushed them with my own. Her eyelids fluttered open and she smiled. She then frowned, got up and ran to what I think was the bathroom. I got up and followed then knocked on the door.

"Meghan, you okay?" I asked.

"No," Came her muffled reply.

"Can I come in?" I asked with concern.

"Okay," She sounded worse then.

When I came in, Meghan's head was over the toilet and she was throwing up. She looked paler than what she was when she woke up. I walked over and held her hair for her until she was done.

What could be wrong with her?

Meghan's POV

I woke up to someone kissing my lips, no not anyone, Ash. I knew those lips, I knew it was him. I opened my eyes and smiled at him. The smile then turned into a scowl as I felt a powerful wave of nausea, I then ran to the bathroom and threw up into the toilet. There was then a knock on the door.

"Meghan, you okay?" I heard Ash ask from the other side of the door.

"No," I answered in the time that I wasn't throwing up.

"Can I come in?" His voice was laced with worry and concern.

"Okay," My voice sounded scratchy and my throat was sore from throwing up.

I probably looked pale and like I had gone through hell and back. He still held my hair while I threw up, not in the least bit grossed out, but more concerned about my well-being.

Once I was done he left the bathroom and waited for me to brush my teeth.

I looked through the draw to find a toothbrush, I couldn't find one, but I found something else.

A pregnancy test. There were three in a pack.

Surely it couldn't hurt to try them. It would make sense though, if I was. Wouldn't it?

I did what the instructions said and put the sticks on the side of the sink while I went out to find a toothbrush and some toothpaste.

Ash's POV

I went to help look for some toothpaste for Meghan while she looked for a toothbrush. Once I had found the toothpaste I went to look for Meghan, once I had looked everywhere else but the bathroom, I went there.

She wasn't there but there was something on the side of the sink. I took a step closer to the sink and looked at what was there.

Pregnancy tests.

"I haven't looked at the tests yet. It would kind of be right if I was though. I mean we didn't use protection." Meghan's voice startled me. I turned around and looked at her.

"We could look at them together you know." My voice was soft and caring. I didn't mind if she was carrying my child. I would love it if she was. But there were the complications that the whole of the Unseelie court didn't know about our relationship and my mother would probably flip if she knew about it. There were the dangers of her coming with me to get the sceptre back. Then there was her family Oberon, what he would do to me for getting her pregnant, Meghan's mother, step-dad, little brother and finally Puck. They would all probably want to hurt me but wouldn't because they knew Meghan wouldn't just give her Virginity up to just anybody. They knew that she knew about responsibility and would trust her judgement of me. I would give anything to be with Meghan and this baby, if she is pregnant of course.

"Alright, lets do this. Together. On three we open each one, I take one, you take the other and we both open the third one. Majority rules, if two or all of them say I'm not pregnant, we don't go to a doctor or healer as you guys call them. If two or all of them say I am we go. Got it?" She asked.

I nodded my head.

"Okay, one, two...three."

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